Sarah-Louise heading to stage school
Sep 12 2008 By John Slim
FOR the first time in several years, Sarah-Louise Garrington is not going to be in a Tudor Musical Comedy Society production – but there is a very good reason why the Sutton Coldfield group’s Crazy For You will have to manage without her next March.
She has been awarded a place at the prestigious Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London.
She is now 18, but she got the theatre bug at the age of six, when she was one of the children in The Sound of Music at Birmingham Hippodrome.
Since then she has been involved with Tudor, first in The Music Man when she was seven, and subsequently in every production since she was 11. Her favourite role was Eliza Doolittle, in Tudor’s My Fair Lady in 2007, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress award.
She is now looking forward to training for stage, television and film work – at the school whose former students include Sarah Parish, who starred in BBC Television’s Cutting It and Mistresses, and Hannah Waddingham, of Footballers’ Wives.
Meanwhile, Tudor MCS is looking for new young members for Crazy For You. In fact, it chose the show in the hope of attracting them. Chairman Nigel Gaunt says: “We badly need some youth – because if you don’t have youth you don’t have people coming into the sausage machine to provide the future.”
Anyone interested will be welcome any Thursday at 7.30 pm at Streetly Community Centre, Foley Road East. Nigel Gaunt has more information on 0121 241 5772 or 07944 776831.
* NINE 20-somethings from Solihull Operatic Society – who have notched up more than 100 years on stage between them – have joined together to put on A Slice Of Saturday Night at Lyndon School, Daylesford Road, Solihull, at the end of the month.
This is a rare sighting on the amateur stage, but the Heather Brothers’ musical, set in the 1960s, broke records at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End before undertaking four major national tours of Britain, two European tours and two tours of Japan – then returning to the West End for a second run at the Strand Theatre. There have been more than 300 productions world-wide and the show has been translated into nine languages.
The action involves seven teenagers who seek to attract the opposite sex while dealing with their assorted angsts.
The show, a radical change from the usual Solihull Operatic Society repertoire, will run from September 25-27.
* THERE’S a celebration coming up at Birmingham’s Crescent Theatre next month.
The occasion is the tenth anniversary of its arrival in its present impressive headquarters in Brindleyplace.
Saturday, October 4, will see a matinée and evening performance of The Power Of Ten, a cabaret-style presentation of songs from the musicals in the Ron Barber Studio Theatre.
